Evening Star Newspaper, March 11, 1937, Page 1

WEATHER. (U 8 Weather Bureau Forecast.) Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow, temperature tonight about 25 degrees, slowly rising temperature tomorrow; gen- tle winds. Temperatures—Highest, 40, at 5 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 27, at 6 a.m. to- day. Full report on page A-8. Closing New York Markets, Page 22 85th YEAR. No. 339 Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. O. 7 "Hits Effort to Overbuild Tribunal. SECOND BEFORE SENATE GROUP Denies A(lvocating Amendment Be Abandoned. Summary of Robert H. Jack- Son’s arguments in behalf of the President’s court plan will be Jound on Page A-4. Digest of Senator Wheeler’s rrotest against the plan on Page A-3. BACKGROUND— Proceeding on conviction that the end justifies the means, present ad- ministration has been guided by elastic interpretation of Constiti- tion in framing recovery legislation. Supreme Court, however, has been generally unsympathetic, has in- validated many important New Deal laws. Finally in early February, Chief Ezecutive startled country and most of Congress by delivering pro- posal for increase in size of court, retirement of judges at 70 and several other innovations. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN, Robert H. Jackson, Assistant Attor- ney General, told the Senate Judiciary Committee today at the hearing on President Roosevelt's court bill that “It is idle to contend. as many of the advocates of judicial supremacy do, that it was ever intended that the Supreme Court become a super-gov- ernment.’ Jackson pointed out that to Con- gress had been given not only the su- preme legislative and policy-making power, but also conclusive powers over jurisdiction and enforcement of de- crees of the court and over appoint- ment and behavior of the court per- sonnel. He argued that it was clearly the duty of the President and of Con- gress to deal with the situation as it now affects the Supreme Court. “The responsibility with Congress for seeing that the American people have a workable, harmonious and co- operative judicial system is so usually overworked by those engaged in build- ing up the tradition of judicial su- premacy, that the burden of consti- tutional! responsibility on Congress deserves examination,” said Jackson Second Witness Called. The Assistant Attorney General was the second witness called by the Senate committee for the hearing on Mr. Roosevelt’s plan to increase the personnel of the Supreme Court. Again the hearing reom was crowded to its limit by the curious throng interested in the controversy. The committee adjourned until 10:30 a.m. tomorrow after question- ing Jackson. The next witness will be Judge John Devaney of Minnesota. He is the first president of the new National Lawyers’ Guild. ‘When Jackson finished his prepared statement he was complimented by Senator O'Mahoney, Democrat be surpassed as an analysis of th e fact of the usurpation by the Supreme | Court of the legislative function.” However, O'Mahoney, who has in- dicated he prefers curtailing the pow- er of the court by an amendment to the Constitution requiring a two-thirds vote of the justices to invalidate an act of Congress, questioned Jackson closely on this point. Jackson conceded the by the vote of one judge. He said he did not think this would be the case in closer harmony wit (See JACKSON, Page A-5.) COURT REFERENDUM PLANNED IN GEORGIA Seminole County Officials Prepare for Vote March 19 After Many Requests. BY the Associated Press. DONALDSONVILLE, Ga., March 11. —Somewhat surprised at growing na- tional interest, Seminole County elec- tion officials completed arrangements today for the first vote in the Nation on President Roosevelt's judicial pro- gram. “I have been swamped with letters,” gaid Joe Johnson, jr., 25-year-old farmer and chairman of the Seminole County Democratic Committee, who arranged the vote for March 19. “Letters come from everywhere, but mostly from Georgia. Some of the folks,” he said with a grin, “even want a ballot to cast, but of course ‘we can’t have that.” Seminole County, an agricultural section in extreme Southwest Georgia, held an unofficial “presidential pref- erence primary” in 1936 with Roose- velt and then Gov. Eugene Talmadge, & New Deal critic, as candidates. Roosevelt won, 661 to 120. “I am very frank to say,” said John- son, “that I am an admirer of the President’s, but this is going to be a fair election. “There is opposition to the Presi- dent’s plan in our county outside of the Republicans. The lawyers don’t like the reorganization idea a bit.” Normandie Sails After Strike. LE HAVRE, March 11 (#).—The Normandie sailed for New York today. A strike which delayed her a day was settled yesterday. q e of | Wyoming, who said: “It can hardly | President’s | _ See! ] plan might leave a situation where |ident’s court plan, Senator O'Mahoney, social legislation still could be blockgd | Democrat, of Wyoming planned to | because “the infusion of new blood” | Federal Court, including the Supreme | would provide justices whose views are | CoUrt, to hold a State or Federal law ny with contemporary | Unconstitutional except = | thirds majority. | ROBERT H. ch ¢ Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ny Star WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1937—FIFTY-TWO PAGES. JACKSON SEES CONGRESS AND PRESIDENT OBLIGED TO MEET CRISIS IN COURT JACKSON, Defending Supreme Court plan. | SENATOR KING, END OFFER DUE TODAY 0’Mahoney Wil Introduce‘ Bill to Limit Court in Voiding Laws. Seeking a compromise on the Pres- introduce in the Senate today a con- stitutional amendment forbidding any | by a two- | | O’Mahoney first broached such a | limitation yesterday, a few hours be- | |fore a vigorous radio debate on the | court problem between Senator Wheel- | er, Democrat, of Montana, an op- ponent of the White House sugges- | |tion, and James E. Landis, Securities | | & Exchange Commission chairman, | 8 supporter. Landis soon is to become | dean of the Harvard Law School. | Conference Postponed. | Meanwhile, it was learned that the | Conference on Constittional Amend- | ment, headed by Senator Norris, inde- | pencent, of Nebraska, has been post- poned until Congress acts on the pres- idential proposal. It was originally set for March 18, but Henry T. Hunt, Interior Department lawyer and chair- man of the Committee on Organiza- | tion for the conference, remarked: | “We felt the conference was out | of key with the present situation, so it will be deferred until a more ap- propriate time.” O’Mahoney quizzed Attorney General | Cummings on the subject of his | amendment at the Senate Judiciary | Committee hearings yesterday. Later | O'Mahoney, in announcing his pro- | posed constitutional change, made a plea for healing the breach the court issue has caused in the ranks of the President’s supporters. “Everything that has happened since February 5 indicates a division among the forces that have been upholding the hands of President Roosevelt,” O’Mahoney said. “I think it would be a tragic thing if that division is not healed, and now if it is at all pos- sible. If permitted to continue, I felir (See COURT, Page A-4.) Veteran Actor Dies. LONDON, March 11 (#).—W. Gra- ham Browne, veteran British actor and producer, who had toured the United States with his actress-wife, Marie Studies document at hearing. —A. P. Photos. MENT PLAN J0HN Tempest, died today. s SON'S $40.000 STRIKE FEE BARED La Follette Probe Reveals R. C. A. Payment for Strike Advice. BACKGROUND— Working under special Senate resolution, La Follette-Thomas committee has spread on public rec- ords story of espionage and distrust in labor relations of some of Na- tion’s greatest corporations. Cutting in on this “melon” of selling industrial spy service and strong-arm strike-breaking were such well-known agencies as those of Pinkerton and Burns. Their bills to industry ran into hundreds of thousands of dollars yearly. BY JOHN C. HENRY. Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, ex-adminis- trator of the N. R. A., received $40,000 plus expenses for “highly satisfactory” services in an advisory capacity to Radio Corp. of America in connection with a strike in the corporation’s manufacturing subsidiary at Camden, N. J., last Summer, it was disclosed before the La Follette committee today. The expense allowance for the ex- Cavalry officer, now a newspaper col- umnist, amounted to $5,654.07. In addition to this expense borne by the parent corporation, a special strike account of the subsidiary com- pany showed total strike costs of $831,026.23. Johnson'’s services were requested by David Sarnoff, president of R. C. A., it was shown by records of a meeting of R. C. A. directors, with the general billing the corporation on January 14, 1937, for the $40,000. Johnson: gave 1333 F street, Washington, as his ad- dress. Johnson Letter Read. Later Senator La Follette read a let- ter from Johnson to the committee dated yesterday, in which he said he undertook the advisory task after con- ferences with Sarnoff and John L. Lewis, C. 1. O, chairman. After pre- paring his bill, Johnson said, he was assured the amount was not excessive for “six months” of effort. Gov. Harold G. Hoffman of New Jersey, who recently challenged the Committee for Industrial Organization and any other strike-minded labor union, “s0ld” the services of the Sher- wood Detective Bureau of New York, & strike-breaking agency, to the R. (See LA FOLLETTE, Page A-8.) » < STRIKE VIOLENCE SPREADING WHILE PARLEYS CONTINUE Score Injured in Clash at California Packing Corp. Factory at Alameda. TROUBLE IS FEARED AT CHRYSLER PLANTS Injunction Proceedings Are Is- sued Against Sit-Down Em- ployes in Detroit. BACKGROUND— The far-flung strike troubles had their beginning early last Fall when the Seamen’s Union tied up ship- ping on American coasts. After 100 days’ duration an agreement was reached in this strike only to be followed by another major labor dissention, that of General Motors Corp. This now is in its final set- tlement. However, Chrysler, Hud- son, Reo and other automobile con= cerns still are crippled by disagree= ments with workers. The strikes have been intensified by the fight of John L. Lewis’ C. I. O. with the A.F.of L. B3 the Associated Press New outbreaks of violence height- of industrial conflict today. | Nearly a score of persons were in- jured in a clash between police and pickets at the California Packing Corp. | plant at Alameda, Calif. | In Chicago more taxicabs were stoned and non-striking drivers pur- sued and beaten in a dispute that has crippled cab transportation At the Lancaster (Pa.) Iron Works, scene of a strike, a crowd pelted work- ers with eggs. Trouble at Chrysler Plants Feared. | Injunctive proceecings against | Chrysler Motor Corp. surikers gave | rise to fear of possible violence at De- | troit. The riot at Alameda, third disturb- ance there within a week, started when non-union workers tried to pass & line of 200 union warehousemen | pickets who have attempted to or- ganize employes. Police released tear gas bombs ana | firemen shot streams of water at the pickets. Clubs, fists and rocks werc brought into play during the melee, | Clouds of tear gas forced some nearby | residents to evacuate their homes. Two | | policemen and a picket were seriously | injured, | Circuit Judge Allan Campbell ordered Chrysler motor strikers and union offi- clals to show cause Saturday why an injunction should not be issued. The latter retaliated by announcing sit- down strikers would not permit cor- poration executives to enter Chrysler plants, Approximately 55,000 employes wera | made idle by the Chrysler strike, which started after the corporation rejected >age A- 88 ON HUNGER STRIKE “} IN W. P. A. JOB DEMAND Spokane, Wash., Group Occupied Headquarters 15 Days to Force Extension of Rolls. By the Assoclated Press. SPOKANE, Wash., March 11.—Un- able to sit their way to victory over }!he Federal Government, 88 unem- | | ployed pledged themselves to go on a | hunger strike today for W. P. A. jobs, after breakfast. For 15 days they sat and ate in Spokane W. P. A. headquarters in a futile effort to force extension of W. P. A employment rolls and recognition of the Workers' Alliance | as sole collective bargaining agency. Summary of Page | Page | Amusements B-14 | Radio . ... C-4 Comics ... C-7| Short Story.. C-8 “Editorials A-10 | Society . | Financial .._A-21| Sports Lost & Found A-3 | Woman's Pg.. Obituary ____A-14 | FOREIGN. | Undeclared world war has begun in Spain, says Miaja. Page A-1 Hull orders representations made on German press articles. Page A-1 French franc rises on exchange as loan is announced. Page A-2 NATIONAL. Jackson sees Congress duty to meet Supreme Court erisis. Page A-1 O’Mahoney to offer amendment on court today. Page A-1 Gen. Johnson paid $40,000 by R. C. A, probers told. Page A-1 | Strike violence spreads as conferees seek to end disputes. Page A-1 Roosevelt court plan upheld by Virgin- ia State tax economist. Page A-3 Importation of Virgin Islands rum to start. Page B-9 Political control of colleges seen in education report. Page C-12 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. First “red rider” conference ends in stalemate. Page A-1 28 are arraigned in 14 gambling raids. Page A-1 Special House committee considers D. C. gambling laws. Page A-2 ‘Trial of Harry K. Thaw damage suit opens today. Page A-2 Irr denies aiding Rhodes as trial nears end. Page A-2 FReads' brother admits plot to rob theater owner. A-2 Income tax returns to be checked earlier this year. Page A-4 Committee opposes raising permit suspension speed figure. Page A-5 Denust’s defense in chloroform case reports “progress.” Page A-9 Virginia Supreme Court rules chain store tax legal. Page A-19 4 -1-3 c-5 ened tension in the fast-moving drama | B-3| | “When I commenced to review the situation with th came by a process of elimination . . .”—Fireside Chat. T \ 3 \\ N [‘M | The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Yesterday’s Circulation, 143,638 (Some returns not vet received.) 35 kokok e problem squarely before me I RED RIDER BILL CONFEREESLOCKED ‘Senate Group Stands Firmly | | for Outright Repeal t | of Measure. ! BACKGROUND— | Repeal of red rider urged by Fed- eration of Citizens’ Associations and other civic groups here because, they feel, it puts all public school teachers under a cloud. Bills to repeal rider have been passed by both Houses at this ses- sion. Senate action was for out- right repeal, while House would permit teaching of the facts of communism and eliminate pay-day statements, but retain the ban on advocating communism. | The first conference on the “red rider” ended in a stalemate today, with the Senate group standing firmly | for outright repeal and the House | members defending the modified “pink | rider” adopted by that branch. | The rider provides that no salary be paid any public school employe who teaches or advocates communism, and the controller general's office ruled that its enforcement requires every employe to file a statement of com- pliance each pay day. The House proposal is to permit teaching and to eliminate the require- | ment of filing pay-day statemen but seeks to retain the ban on advo- | cating communism. The Senate con- tention has been that the rider is an | unnecessary reflection on the teachers and that no similar restriction is ap- plied to other public officials. | “We did not agree to the ‘pink | rider’ and do not intend to agree to | it.” said Senator Black of Alabama, | chairman of the Senate group. “We told the House members we would meet with them again at any con- venient time.” | “We defended the position of the | | House, but the Senate conferees are | adamant,” said Representative Norton | of New Jersey. “We will meet again, | probably some time next week.” | The Senate has voted twice at this session in favor of outright repeal, and | there are no indications it will yield that position. If the disagreement in conference continues, the next move | probably will be to report a disagree- | ment to the House and seek further instructions, but other conferences will be held before that develops. Today’s Star Subcommittees named for D. C. reor- ganization study. Page B-1 | Youthtul trio indicted on robbery charge. Page B-1 Pedestrian killed when struck by two automobiles. Page B-1 Willard conferences held; pants plant increases wages. Page B-1 Mrs. Norton reveals threat to force race bill withdrawal. Page B-1 Public hearings scheduled on Jacobs fiscal plan. Page B-1 EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. Editorials Page This and That Page Answers to Questions Page Stars, Men and Atoms Page David Lawrence Page Paul Mallon Page Mark Sullivan Page Jay PFranklin Page Delia Pynchon Page MISCELLANY. Washington Wayside City News in Brief Traffic Convictions Service Orders Young Washington Nature’s Children Bedtime Story Dorothy Dix Francesca McKenney Crossword Puzzle Letter-Out Vital Statistics After Dark SPORTS. Pitching appears Nationals’ only need. Net to alternate hitters. Page C-1 Madison Square Garden apparently has lost grip on ring game. Page C-2 Guldahl seems certain to get place on Ryder Cup golf team. Page C-3 FINANCIAL. Bank clearings down. Freight loadings rise. U. 8. bonds improve. Motor stocks decline. Curb list mixed (table). Earnings favorable. A-10| A-10 A-10 A-10 A-11 A-11 A-11 A-11 A-11 Page A-2 Page B-6 Page A-24 Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page B-14 Page B-12 Page B-5 Page A-20 Page A-20 Page A-21 Page A-22 Page A-23 Page A-23 o Cherry Buds Unhurt, Cold Will Continue Temperature Due for Rise, However, Tomorrow. With the weather due to remain about the same today and a slight rise in temperature tomorrow no injury to the Japanese cherry trees about the Tidal Basin was expected as a result of last night's snowstorm. The snow failed to injure the buds, Frank T. Gartside, assistant superin- tendent of the National Capital Parks, said today. Only a very cold spell at this time could hurt them, it was said. The Weather Bureau predicted the low for tonight as about 25. It was 27 degrees last night. A slowly- rising temperature was predicted for tomorrow. The saturation of the cherry buds by the melting snow will prove a bene- fit to them, Gartside said. “WORLD WAR ON," SAYS GEN. MIAJA 30,000 Italians Participat- ing in Spain, Madrid Leader Declares. BACKGROUND— After four months' seige Madrid this week added 10,000 youths to the defense forces, and simultane- ously withdrew troops along the Guadalajara-Zaragoza highway, where, it was reported, an insurgent drive was halted. The troops were given a more strategic position Bolstering the defense northeast of Madrid, the capital has been less hampered by arial bombing. BY the Associated Press MADRID, March 11.—Gen. Jose Miaja, commander of Madrid's de- fense forces, announced today “an undeclared international war has be- gun in Spain” in which 30,000 Italian soldiers are participating. “Spain has been invaded by a for- eign army!"” the government generalis- simo declared. The government, in a communique, asserted evidence has been “uncovered to show that four full divisions (of Italian troops) are taking part in the | fighting.” Mangini Named Commander. The communique named “Gen. Man- gini” as the commander of Italian forces in Spain. Individual divisions are commanded by “Gens. Bergonzoli, Nuvoloni and Cops,” the government reported. “The (Italian) divisions are black- | shirt militia,” the communique said, “except for one which is of the regu- lar Italian Army.” Simultaneously with the statement on the alleged Italian participation in | the civil war, the government reported that & counter attack on the south- BONDS SET FOR 28 N GAMING CASES Fixed at From $1,500 to $2,000—Hearings Due in Fortnight. The 25 men and three women seized in 14 simultaneous gambling raids yes- terday afternoon were arraigned to- day before United States Commis- sioner Needham C. Turnage, who set bonds at from $1,500 to $2,000 and continued the cases two weeks for a preliminary hearing. Eighty-three persons were booked after the raids, most of them as Gov- | ernment witnesses. At least 15 others | were arrested in the premises and released without being booked when police were convinced they knew noth- ing of the alleged gambling opera- tions. The arraignment was a tedious process, as officials awaited the ar- rival of various bondsmen and arrest- ing officers. Among the first to ap- | pear before Turnage were: | Frank M. Goldberg, Harry Smith, | James B. Rock, Joseph Hooker Mealey, | David Whaley Wages and John Mor- ton Slater, each of whom is charged with conspiracy to violate the gam- bling laws and with setting up a gam- ing table. Bonds were set at $2,000 each. $2,000 Bond for Nuchols. Carroll P. (Nubby) Nickols, who is charged with setting up a gaming table, was released under $2,000 bond. | A 81,500 bond was set for his wife, Mrs. Mary Nuckols, who is charged | with conspiracy. Prederick J. (Reds) | Schofield. charged with conspiracy, | was freed under $2,000 bond, pending the preliminary hearing. Freed Under $2,000 Bond. The other 17 men and 2 women were released under $2,000 bond each on charges of setting up a gaming table. They were Moe Morganstern, Henry Cabell Adams, George W. God- irey, George Oliver, Eleanor Bieber, | Jack Robinson. Thomas Mack. Rachel Stam, Barnard Bonner, Alton Fried- berg. William H. (Colonel) Harvey, | Larry Callenberger, Garner S. Barber, Jack L. Quinn, Philip R. Davis, Robert Nelson, Robert Lee Moler, Charles Ed- ward Kesecker and Nicholas Floratus. Adams, attempting to avoid being photographed by newspaper camera- men as he left the hearing room, cov- ered his face with his coat, lowered his head and charged at three photog- raphers. He hit one with his shoulder, and the photographer was thrown against the door to Commissioner Turnage's | private office, breaking the window. With a well-placed kick, Adams broke a flash bulb in the camera of another photographer. Then he fled down the stairs. Assistant United States Attorney | Roger Robb said today that a number of the prisoners probably will be prose- cuted as participants in the alleged gambling conspiracy disclosed by a raid Saturday evening on the Albee Build- ing headquarters of National Telecast, Inc. Wiliam (Jewboy) Dietz and Wil- liam Cahill are said by police to be the heads of the organization. The Saturday raid was conducted by | Pederal men and local police, who said they found wires used to broadcast (See WAR, Page A-0) (See RAIDS, Page A-2) British Meeting War Challenge With 148 New Ships, Says Hoare BS the Associated Press. LONDON, March 11.—Sir Samuel Hoare, first lord of the admiralty, told the House of Commons today that Great Britain, by the end of the year, | “will have under construction the re- markable number of 148 new war- ships.” i Sir Samuel introduced the 1937 naval estimates. These call for 80 more new ships to cost $525,325,000. With the ships already started, these will bring the total to be under con- struction by the end of 1937 to the 148 figure, he said. They will include five capital ships, four aircraft carriers and 17 cruisers. “We are forced,” sald Sir Samuel, “to telescope into two or three years what ought td, normally, be carried out in a decade.” “Past deficiencies,” he said, forced this acceleration of the naval phase of Britain’s five-year $7,500,000,000 de- fense program. The first lord of the admiralty pre- dicted the ship-building program would be carried out without delay. ] ‘“We shall have the material for con- struction and when the ships are built | he cried. Sir Samuel continued: “Never since the years before 1914 have we had two such annual pro- grams in peacetime. (He explained he was referring to the 1936-37 plans.) “The wild claims of fanatics that airpower has destroyed seapower have been swallowed up in the element from whieh they came. Balanced judgment has taken the part of par- tisan propaganda, and, today, the inter-dependence of sea and airpower is reeognized.” Every preparation, he said, has been made to learn “the lessons of war.” “In recent years there have been experiments, often of the most secret kind, with every type of explosive upon every kind of material. “Our counter-action to the threat from the air has included the full- est use of airpower itself and the production of anti-aircraft weapons on a scale of undreamed of in 1918.” f o] (®) Means Associated Press. we shall have the men to man them,” | TWO CENTS. GERMAN ARTICLES DFFENSIVETOU.S, HULL CABLES DODD |Orders Envoy to Make Vig- | orous Representations to Reich. {ACTION IS OUTGROWTH OF LA GUARDIA ATTACK Step Not a Protest, but Comment Calculated to Have Same Effect. BACKGROUND— Mayor La Guardia of New York started international complications when he called Chancellor Hitler a “brown-shirted fanatic menacing the peace of Europe,” in addressing Women’s Division of American Jeu- ish Congress March 3. He suggested Hitler as feature of “chamber of horrors” in world’s fair, La Guardia later reiterated his charge, and when he spoke at Sen- ator Bronson Cutting Memorial lec- ture here Tuesday, German Ambas- sador Luther was conspicuously absent. BS the Associated Press | | Secretary of State Hull today ir structed Ambassador William E. Do at Berlin to make vigorous repre tations to the German foreign off concerning recent articles appea | in the German press about the Uniter; States. | The sesretary recently apologized | formally to the German Embassy he; for remarks made by Mayor Fiorel H. La Guardia of New York ir | La Guardia referred to Chancel i ler as a “brown-shirted fanatic La Guardia's statements, made be- | fore the women’s section of the Amer | ican Jewish Congress, evoked a deluge of criticism from the German press in which La Guardia not only was at- tacked, but American institutions and Jewish women also were scored. Mrs. Wise Writes Letter. This press campaign was called t Secretary Hull's attention by Mrs | Stephen” S. Wise, wife of the notec Jewish rabbi and chairman of the women's section of the American Jew- ish Congress. Her formal letter prompted Secre- tary Hull to dispatch immediate orders to Ambassador to express “emphatic | comment™ to the German foreign office and to say the United States Govern- ment was amazed at the fierceness of the German press attack. It was understood that recent arti- cles published by Der Angriff, & lead- | ing Berlin journal, were particularly offensive to American officials. It was explained that the Secretary's instructions to Dodd did not constitut a protest, but comment which would | be calculated to have much the same effect U. S. Apologies Tendered. Hull tendered to the German Em- bassy this Government's apologies f La Guardia's remarks after Dr. Hans Thomsen, Counselor of the embassy, had protested to the State Depart- ment that La Guardia had gratuitously insulted Chancellor Hitler In the apology. the Secretary said La Guardia's remarks did not repre- sent the views of the United Sta Government and expressed regret that any of its citizens should voice such utterances about the head of a nation with which the United States had official relations. The Secretary of State has trans- mitted a letter replying to the com- munication from Mrs. Wise advising her of the steps taken by the Govern- ment 800 Fascist Spies in U. S. Meanwhile, Representative Dick- stein, Democrat, of New York told the House Rules Committee he could name 100 foreign spies in America who are trying to estallish a “Fascist government." The chairman of the House Immi- gration Committee was seeking ap- | proval of a resolution for a House investigation of groups or individuals | distributing “slanderous or libelous un- | American propaganda of religions, ra- cial or subversive political prejudices.” Dickstein said he had documentary proof that Fritz Huhn, who he said was & chemist for the Ford Motor Co., was “the designated leader for the Hitler government in this country.” “We all know,” he said, “that Mr. Hitler is trying to create a world war.” He showed Rules Committee mem- | bers pictures of what he said was a | secret meeting in New York at which | 800 aliens and naturalized Americans | were taking an oath of allegiance to | the Nazi form of government. “They are building up an army | within our country,” he said. Dickstein sald the Nazis were organized in 14 States, including New York, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Ohio, and were training men in uniform. “Two hundred thousand are organ- | ized now.” he said, “and there will be a million before the year is up.” 'POISON PLOT JURY CONVICTS KOREAN | Chang Foo Lee Is Found Guilty | of Second-Degree Assault. BY the Associated Press. ‘WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., March 11.— Chang Foo Lee, bland, cigar-smoking house boy, was convicted of second de- gree assault today by a jury in West- chester County Court. He was charged with poisoning two relatives of his aged employer, Mrs. Ida L. Churchill. Judge Gerald Nolan set no date for sentence. Chang faces an indeterm- inate sentence of two and one-half to five years on each of two counts, one each involving the alleged poisoning of Mr. and Mrs. George Reeves, former residents of Mooresville, Ind. The case went to the jury at 4:15 p.m. yesterday, and the jury was locked up for the night at midnight, resuming its deliberations this morning. »